Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran on Monday for the funeral of slain terrorist Qassem Soleimani, who was killed last Friday by U.S. drone strike. Many Iranians engaged in zealous and almost comical displays of grief and anger, which is the exact sort of behavior one should expect from the subjects of a brutal autocratic regime where outward shows of fealty mean the difference between life and death.

Many in the U.S. press, however, seem to be laboring under the delusion that the shows of anguish are genuine and that Soleimani, a brutal, pitiless murderer, was indeed a dearly loved, “revered” leader in Iran. As a result, American press cheering Kim Jong Un’s sister at the 2018 Winter Olympics is no longer the low point for the U.S. news media in the Trump era.